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Have you ever organized anything of size?

Financing is not the bottleneck. Organizational capacity might well be, though. As an organization, AMDs survival depended not on competing with nVidia but on competing with Intel. Now they are established, in what must be one of the greatest come from behind successes in tech history. 8 years ago, Intel was worth 80 times as much as AMD, today AMD has surpassed them:

https://www.financecharts.com/compare/AMD,INTC/summary/marke...

Stock isn't reality, but I wouldn't so easily assume that the team that led AMD to overtake Intel are idiots.



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